Unusual Porsche

[smarjoram]

found it on the xplanes site...

http://xplanes.tumblr.com/page/5

[sc_rufctr]

Wow... That looks like fun, lol

[sc_rufctr]

Quote from the site...

"“The Gyrodyne Model GCA-55 single-seat ground cushion vehicle of the annular jet type, powered by a 72 h.p. Porsche four-cylinder engine. It was developed under a U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics contract and flew for the first time in October, 1959.”"

This thing actually flew!

[smarjoram]

Only 6 inches off the ground though

[tharbert]

I like the bumpers...you just fend stuff off with your feet.

[kach22i]

I've posted that one before, about seven years ago though. Nice find, never seen such a high qualty photo of it before.

I like the website, the Horton on a stick and the Asto below the Porsche driven ACV are cool.

[cgarr]

Look at that grin on his face!

[wilke3169]

There is one of the "X-ron Rotocycles" hanging in the Yorktown which is on display here in Charleston. We recently had our 40th anniversary celebration for the PCA Palmetto Region there and it was pointed out that it had a Porsche engine.

[onlycafe]

"The Gyrodyne Model GCA-55 single-seat ground cushion vehicle of the annular jet type, powered by a 72 h.p. Porsche four-cylinder engine."




needs to be bumped up to super 90 spec.

[URY914]

Is there a class for it at a PCA autocross?

[LeeH]

Porsche powered Hershey's kiss?

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by URY914

Is there a class for it at a PCA autocross?

would blow over too many cones...like all of them?

[smarjoram]

Is it perhaps the ultimate outlaw 356?